Ibuga, Tanzania

Water-harvesting systems provide plenty of safe water for students to quench their thirst while at school.

Health and sanitation
• Provided insecticide-treated mosquito nets for all 2,250 sponsored children and 1,200 other members of the community
• Trained 60 community members to monitor, and respond to, incidences of malaria in their communities
• Trained 315 mothers to make more nutritious food for children under 5 years old
• Held four community meetings to educate mothers and pregnant women about nutrition, childcare and hygiene
• Trained 168 traditional birth attendants about family planning and hygienic techniques relating to child birth
• Improved five community water sources
• Held four community meetings in which 200 households learned to build improved latrines; three-quarters of the households who attended have since built hygienic latrines
• Constructed three water tanks and water-harvesting systems for schools
• Trained 50 members of children’s committees about hygiene and education
  

HIV and AIDS

• Formed and trained four community care coalitions to support families affected by HIV and AIDS
• Held four community meetings to increase awareness of HIV and AIDS
• Trained 50 young people to educate their peers about HIV and AIDS
• Trained 130 primary school teachers to use HIV and AIDS educational materials in class
• Constructed homes for three child-headed families and provided food for 30 child-headed families
  

Education

• Provided school uniforms for 300 children affected by HIV and AIDS and supported 119 with school fees
• Provided schools with 270 desks and 80 tables and chairs
• Completed construction of two classrooms
• Awarded prizes to the four best school committees
  

Agricultural and economic development

• Trained 42 farmers to keep poultry and dairy cows
• Trained 26 farmers to produce vanilla as a cash crop
• Arranged an exchange visit to another community for 22 contact farmers
• Held workshops on intercropping for 22 community-based agricultural extension workers
• Held seven public meetings on intercropping and other modern agricultural techniques
• Trained members of five community-based organisations and 110 income-generating groups in management, marketing and savings and loans schemes
• Supported 26 teenagers affected by HIV and AIDS to establish income-generating activities, by providing bicycles, sewing machines or carpentry equipment

Challenges
The people of Ibuga still have a number of challenges ahead of them. During the next year, World Vision will focus on providing educational opportunities for children, addressing HIV and AIDS, increasing incomes and strengthening community leadership.